On-screen tech in next series

[jefferiestubes8]

While TNG had PADD that forshadowed the iPad tablet computer only 25 years later and VOY & ENT didn't exactly have much new tech used on-screen what _WILL_ we see on-screen in this new Trek TV series?

Probably real iPad Minis used as PADDs with Okudagrams
Probably all LED practical lighting built-into the ship similar to on ENT.
The usual audible voice commands for the computer
Consoles for navigation, coms, helm control on the bridge. This traditional 1900-2000s naval ships layout still works for the drama in ship-to-ship combat so i doubt we'll see people sitting in cubicles or in rows like a NASA contril room on computers.
A large viewscreen on the bridge for communications and visual camera views of outside.
A new type of power source not a Warp drive. Is that Trek sacriledge?
Replicators
Turbolifts
The old fashioned Jefferies tube
Hand phasers
Tricorders

What technology from canon will the new show NOT keep?

 

[RAMA]

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[somebuddyX]

No replicators.

 

[drt]

Huh? With 3D printing we have the basis for replicators now. They don't have to be a transporter thing like in TNG, but it isn't hard to extrapolate a functional equivalent from current technology.

Also, tiny nitpick, 2001 had tablet computers that were more "iPady" than the TNG PADDs.

 

[somebuddyX]

Can you 3D print me a steak for dinner then please?
I've always disliked the concepts of the replicator and the holodeck as they've been shown on Trek and I hope for the new series they are just completely binned. I don't expect that to happen of course.

 

[somebuddyX]

I hope we get some of those holographic consoles from Minority Report/Iron Man but with a Trek spin on it, maybe for a briefing room for away missions or something. And some good old flip communicators but updated, maybe like a composite tricorder/comunnicator.

 

[eyeresist]

Yes, I predict holograms (but hopefully not holodeck). The main viewscreen will have a holographic option that projects into the bridge area.

Possibly also virtual reality? As a means of remote exploration and also repair work. Have to be careful this doesn't nerf the adventure, though.

 

[Mudd]

The idea of Star Trek portraying "augmented humans" as a significant part of the crew is a non-starter - good way to limit the audience and aim for early cancellation. To succeed, Trek needs to show people more like us - as TOS did, as the Abrams movies do - rather than another clumsy attempt to show us "evolving."

They could really stand to throw out and rethink some of the casual technology that the characters use. The communicators are outdated - and why are they separate devices from the tricorders, anyway?

 

[CJCade]

The communicators are outdated - and why are they separate devices from the tricorders, anyway?

This got me thinking why not. The one reasonable explanation I could come up with is that if they were combined and it was lost or failed, what then? All in one devices are great, but often times it's all or nothing with them. Multiple devices at least offers the possibility of having something rather than nothing.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I've kind of held the opinion that Starfleet equipment is based on a different philosophy than what is used by everyday people in the Federation. There probably are far more sophisticated and versatile devices than audio communicators, tricorders, and PADDs--likely there are devices that can easily do the jobs of all three--but they may not hold up well on away missions where they might be damaged easily. Starfleet may rely on more "simplistic" individual devices that are built more ruggedly and are more dependable (not system crash easily?) in the field.

That could also apply to some shipboard equipment that well. If you think standard 2D consoles explode easily during starship battles, well...

 

[JoeCabby]

The communicators are outdated - and why are they separate devices from the tricorders, anyway?

This got me thinking why not. The one reasonable explanation I could come up with is that if they were combined and it was lost or failed, what then? All in one devices are great, but often times it's all or nothing with them. Multiple devices at least offers the possibility of having something rather than nothing.

I think in the new one they could combine them and just have redundant tech. Communication could be done from multiple devices just like how some people have a work phone and a personal phone. They could keep the standard chest pin/communicator seen in most Star Trek's and also carry around tricorders which also have a communicator built in for redundancy.

I could also see more wearable tech such as eyeglass computers, watches/Pipboys. I think holographic imaging should be a given at this point.

 

[Mudd]

Definite yes on the wearable tech - if nothing else, sensor gadgets should visors, glasses and/or miniature earpieces etc. If there's a hand-held "communicator" use it as the controller for everything - that way, at least the show looks almost modern, if still a little retro.

There's no excuse not to have full visual two-way communication.

 

[drt]

Can you 3D print me a steak for dinner then please?

Heh, 3D food printing already exists (look up a machine called "Foodini"), give it 300 years of development...

 

[Tim Thomason]

Can you 3D print me a steak for dinner then please?
I've always disliked the concepts of the replicator and the holodeck as they've been shown on Trek and I hope for the new series they are just completely binned. I don't expect that to happen of course.

I can't, but this will be set in the future. If the show has a transporter, then it ought to have some form of replicator.

If the show doesn't have a transporter, it still ought to show us that they make food from non-edible material, similar to a 3D printer today.

And I don't see a problem with showing augmented humans, as long as its not among the main, main cast. For example, that weird robot guy in Into Darkness (0718, who the comics refer to as an avatar of the Enterprise) doesn't distract from the plot of the movie. He's just there. And a series can have more of him, and eventually tell us a backstory if it's interesting.

 

[Jedman67]

One thing the new trek series should definitely invest in: surge protectors, fuse boxes and circuit breakers.

 

[uniderth]

One thing the new trek series should definitely invest in: surge protectors, fuse boxes and circuit breakers.

Amen!

And to sound futuristic they can call them Quantum Isofuses, or maybe a Quantum Surge Interrupt.

 

[Greg Cox]

And give the uniforms pockets!

 

[Relayer1]

It's all going to look pretty much like Apple(TM) versions of stuff from the other shows. If it's set after the 24th century it'll be smaller, but it'll still be physical tech.

Subdermal communicators would look like people talking to themselves. Neural interfaces wouldn't be very viewer friendly - screens and keyboards / computer voices are. Start firing phaser beams out of your fingers and you're into superhero territory.

Starships are cool. Flying around having space battles looks cool. Starships keep the cast together and interacting. Long distance beaming doesn't do any of these and it famously 'doesn't take as long as the plot requires'.

It's got to look kind of like 'now' but in space.

And give the uniforms pockets!

With pockets.

 

[Franklin]

The idea of Star Trek portraying "augmented humans" as a significant part of the crew is a non-starter - good way to limit the audience and aim for early cancellation. To succeed, Trek needs to show people more like us - as TOS did, as the Abrams movies do - rather than another clumsy attempt to show us "evolving."

They could really stand to throw out and rethink some of the casual technology that the characters use. The communicators are outdated - and why are they separate devices from the tricorders, anyway?

Amen! Sing it, bro! Oh. I mean, "exactly so."

One thing I think needs to be considered is implants. They toyed with the idea from time to time in TOS (like in "Patterns of Force") and they were part of the novelization of TMP if I remember. It just seems to be the direction in which things are going. The "ick" factor or squeamishness about it seems to have gone away. Heck, my dog has a GPS chip implanted just under his shoulder skin that can be activated in case he gets lost.
Communicator-tricorder-locator-medical-individual health monitor, the whole nine yards in a microchip or two just under the skin. Information could be fed to the eyes through the brain so it can be "seen."

And give the uniforms pockets!

And a zipper in the "right place."

 

[Relayer1]

And a zipper in the "right place."

On the pockets ?